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Plant Sightseeing – Chinese Garden of Friendship, Sydney

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If you’re ever down in Sydney, like we happened to be a while back, we highly recommend the Chinese Garden of Friendship. The most impressive thing for us to see was the number of unique ‘spaces’ created in what is really a very small area. It makes the garden seem far bigger than it is, and creates surprising new little scenes at every turn.

It is certainly a good place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, which can be quite overwhelming.

Weekend Notes has a lot of positive things to say about it too.

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New Succulents Arriving

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Hopefully by the time this post is up we will have our new shipment of succulents ready to go and potted up for your planty pleasure!

Oh, and happy Easter – may the long weekend bring you much rest and happiness!

We will be closed Easter Friday and Easter Monday, with very short hours on Saturday 20th.

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Op Shop Finds

op shop pots fun plants gold coast

Does anyone else love stumbling across unique vessels for their plant collection? You are not alone! We like to keep an eye out wherever we go for new and interesting plant containers that we can bring to you in our shop (and also for ourselves!).

Also, if you have a particular container waiting for a plant, and unsure what to get, feel free to bring it in and we may be able to plant it up for you. We often have spare plants ready for potting up and you are welcome to browse and select from what we have.

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What we love about – Fittonias

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Fittonias, also known as ‘nerve plants’ are lovely shade plants which are fantastic for terrariums and other indoor uses, also for planting in damp-ish shady areas outside. They love low to medium light. They will go well in a window if not in the hot hot sun (e.g. a window that receives just morning light). They also like high-humidity, which is likely why they thrive in the terrarium environment. Costa Farms and TheSpruce have some great info on them too.

What we most love about these little plants is the many different leaf colours. Fittonias can come with white veins, pink, red, and variations of all of those, and the colours have awesome names like ‘white angel’ and ‘red flame’.